Table of Contents Details Test environment Links for more information Development environment Sub-goals Further Discussion See Also

Details

Test environment

Client

Server

Building: This project can be completed on any edk2 supported OS or toolchain.

Sub-goals:

Using wireshark and publically available documentation, document the client/server protocol.
- Basic protocol.
- [EXTRA] Named exports.
- [EXTRA] Authentication.
Setup UEFI environment with working TCP/IP (can 'ping' from Shell)
Investigate EDK2 TcpIoLib and ecosystem.
- Some questions to answer: how to get local IP? Study UEFI spec and EDK2 code under NetworkPkg.
- Write an UEFI application that opens a TCP socket, writes and reads from it. Connect to a 'netcat' server. Netcat is a simple tool (like cat) that can be a TCP server or client (on Linux, alternatives exist for Windows).
- Extend UEFI application to implement the *basic* NBD protocol - no named exports, no authentication. Be able to connect to a server and read back one block of data.
Understand UEFI driver model, and block protocols: EFI_BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL and EFI_BLOCK_IO2_PROTOCOL.
- Better understand protocols, interfaces.
- Understanding driver binding, enumeration.
- Implement a dummy EFI_BLOCK_IO_PROTOCOL driver that creates a sample block device that returns all zeroes for all reads.
NBD block I/O device.
- Wire-in NBD support from your network application above into your block I/O driver - implement read-only support.
- [EXTRA] Add read/write support.
- Think about management interface - how do you specify target server/port? (assumed you hardcoded it for now).
- [EXTRA] Write simple tool to manage NBD driver.

This project would be for an edk2 based driver, so please discuss the project on edk2-devel.